really feels like brand design is having a moment. seeing a wave of brand roles opening up across our portfolio right now: @linear: design engineer, web & brand (remote north america/europe) jobs.ashbyhq.com/Linear/f04f… @ambrookag: brand designer (nyc/sf/denver/remote; up to $195k) jobs.ashbyhq.com/ambrook/9a7… @notionhq: brand designer, creative studio (nyc; up to $250k) jobs.ashbyhq.com/notion/59f2… @stripe: senior brand designer, link (remote US; up to $239k) stripe.com/careers/listing/s… @gustohq: staff brand & motion designer (sf/nyc/denver; up to $222k) job-boards.greenhouse.io/gus… @bezihq: motion designer & video editor (remote north america) bezi.com/careers/motion-desi… more roles: jobs.designerfund.com

We're hiring a Product Design Lead at @BeziHQ ! Bezi is building the best agentic workspace for game devs & studios. You'd be owning big parts of the product, join a team that cares a lot about design quality, and do much of your communicating through prototypes instead of decks and static mockups. If this sounds like you, apply below 👇 bezi.com/careers/product-des…

There’s a good chance your open source model is costing more than the frontier. Cheap tokens ≠ cheap tasks. Here, we introduce Intelligence Density, and Density Aware Training, our post-training technique to achieve less wasted compute, better learning, all with no knobs to tune. Enabled by default in every Trajectory model.

Routing is now built in to the @linear coding agent. It can automatically pick the right the model (Claude/Codex/Open source/more soon) for the task. The Switzerland of coding agents

The startup tool stack is growing/shifting every month. We asked founders that value design what they use for data, marketing, design, engineering, infra, finance, etc. Basically if you were starting from zero today what tools do you turn to? While we do this for our founders I figure this can also be useful to anyone starting something today so here’s a public version of the recommendations - startuptoolstack.netlify.app… Also, any mission critical tools you use we missed??

New @ThePeelPod with @tomerlondon We talk everything he’s learned scaling @GustoHQ zero to 500k customers and $1B+ in TTM revenue, being obsessed with your customer, what their internal data says about AI’s impact on SMBs, and Gusto’s M&A playbook. Full episode here + links below. 0:00 You must be obsessed with your customers 10:09 Building Gusto Cofounder in 8 weeks 13:57 What AI is actually doing to small businesses 19:52 COVID and "the end of small business" 27:42 Why running a small business is so hard 32:21 SVB and why payroll can't be late 36:29 How GTM changes after 500,000 customers 39:27 Running payroll manually before Gusto 46:19 Why payroll and compliance are so hard 49:14 What his dad's clothing store taught him 54:01 Are we regulating small business out of existence? 58:14 Starting as ZenPayroll in 2012 1:05:03 Getting the first customers 1:07:30 Minimum Lovable Product vs MVP 1:11:29 How AI changed the way Gusto builds 1:15:59 Gusto's M&A playbook 1:22:53 Shimon Peres and "no room for small dreams"

Hey folks. Were looking for a super senior Brand Designer in NYC at Notion. Looking for someone who is campaigns-oriented but not so much that they forgot what good design looks like. Emphasis on senior (Principal level) and the need to be in NYC. Thanks yall!

Bitrig can now turn your Figma designs into native Swift apps built with Apple’s real controls and materials. bitrig.link/blog/turn-figma-…

AI in Design has been featured on @Visuelleuk 🖤 We worked alongside @designerfund to design the digital experience for a report exploring how AI is reshaping design practices and workflows across the industry. Read the feature: lnkd.in/dAhNiqZD

Getting a patent is often slow, opaque, and wildly expensive. For a first-to-file system, any delay poses risks for founders. @fearnlegal is changing that. They're building a modern patent firm that combines flat fees and multi-day turnarounds with a team of Big Law experts and PhDs. @jackieberardo on why we're backing Fearn: designerfund.substack.com/p/…

Super helpful to be able to debug/experience how an app would work on a duo without spending the $2K for it... great stuff from @bitrig team!

We just shipped Quiver 2.0 in @paper This is the best SVG generation possible, it's an incredible leap forward • Much faster AND better quality • Cleaner geometry • New Telos model for detailed work Next level vector generation -- available today in Paper

Introducing Skills: teach the Framer agent how you work. Save instructions for your design system, writing style, or CMS workflow, then reuse them across tasks. Reference pages, components, and styles in your skills so the agent follows your designs. framer.com/skills

Build, restyle, and animate with 3D transforms just by prompting 00:04 Start with a frame and a prompt 00:23 Restyle 00:36 Add a 360° rotation 00:44 Hit the play button

the power of a good hiring page 👌 love seeing our @designerfund case studies on @linear + @shopify’s sites. such a good peek into how these teams think and build. linear.app/careers shopify.design

This @designerfund video with @lil_dill and some of our amazing designers talking about how design at Stripe is totally changing with AI + prototyping. it's is great internal peek at how we're working differently now. Featured in here is the prototyping tool I've been chipping away at, protodash, which gives designers + PMs the same superpowers that AI is giving to engineers. piped.video/watch?v=JKc2J8Th…

ORBIT (BY LINEAR) 09 DEC 2026 SF/CA orbit.linear.app

Y'all go read this during your lunch or something. Never been part of such an amazing design team.

The Invisible Side of Design Engineering jakub.kr/writing/the-invisib…

We went inside @stripe’s design team to understand how they work and how they’ve built a culture of experimentation while keeping the quality bar high. Some of the answers: dedicated “AI-cation” days, shared tools like ProtoDash and Dante, smaller “roof shots” before moonshots, and leaders getting back into the tools. These systems help the team move quickly without mistaking speed for quality. As @lil_dill asks: “Would I be proud if it took me two weeks to get here?” Lots of practical ideas for designers and design leaders in our latest case study: designerfund.substack.com/p/… Watch on YouTube: piped.video/watch?v=JKc2J8Th…